Friday, November 06, 2009
From The Pantagraph, Friday, November 6, 2009 7:05 am
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Hudson Library Recalls Elbert Hubbard Ahead of PBS Documentary
HUDSON -- The Hudson Area Public Library will host a program Nov. 14 about Elbert Hubbard, founder of the influential arts community known as the Roycroft Campus, as a prelude to a PBS documentary about Hubbard airing later this month.
The library program, "Elbert Hubbard and Hudson History," is from 10 to 11 a.m. The PBS program, "Elbert Hubbard: An American Original," airs Nov. 23 on WTVP and WILL.
Hubbard was a philosopher, writer and founder, in 1895, of the Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N.Y., a reformist community of craft workers, artists, furniture makers and others who formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement that had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century. The Roycroft Campus remains active today.
A prolific writer, Hubbard's most famous essay was "Message to Garcia," which became required reading in classrooms across America after it was published in 1899.
Hubbard lived in Bloomington for a year, then moved to Hudson, where he grew up. He lived there until he became a soap salesman at age 15. He moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where he later became secretary-treasurer for the J.D. Larkin Co., a furniture maker. He and his wife, noted suffragette Alice Moore Hubbard, died when the Lusitania sank in 1915. His house, at Broadway and Walnut in Hudson, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The library display, in the Hudson History Room, will feature several Hubbard items, including a letter, Roycroft and Larkin items, and medical tools and medicines from the 1850s that Hubbard's father, Dr. Silas Hubbard, used in his practice.
The program also will include several presentations: "Elbert's Family and His Childhood" by Sue Keeran; "Elbert's Larkin Years" by Judith Lampert; and "Establishment of the Roycrofters" by Douglas Jennings.
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About Books Inc. has many Elbert Hubbard volumes. Pictured are some of the items I have on display in the front window. I am working this weekend to make sure all are inventoried so they will be available online as well as in the store. Please stop by to see what is available or go to the website: www.aboutbooksbloomington.com and do an author search (Hubbard, Elbert).
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I will be heading south for the winter again this year. I plan to be here through November. Jon will hold down the fort again while I am gone. Clare got married this October and will be leaving Bloomington when she is done with school in early December.
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Hours will be seasonally adjusted again during the winter months.
NOVEMBER: Tues. - Fri. 10:30-5:30; Sat. 10:30-4
DECEMBER: Tues. - Sat. 11:00-4:00
JANUARY-MARCH: Fri. & Sat., 11:00-4:00
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KEEP READING!
About Books Inc
221 E. Front Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
309-829-3999
www.aboutbooksbloomington.com
aboutbooksinc@hotmail.com
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Hudson Library Recalls Elbert Hubbard Ahead of PBS Documentary
HUDSON -- The Hudson Area Public Library will host a program Nov. 14 about Elbert Hubbard, founder of the influential arts community known as the Roycroft Campus, as a prelude to a PBS documentary about Hubbard airing later this month.
The library program, "Elbert Hubbard and Hudson History," is from 10 to 11 a.m. The PBS program, "Elbert Hubbard: An American Original," airs Nov. 23 on WTVP and WILL.
Hubbard was a philosopher, writer and founder, in 1895, of the Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N.Y., a reformist community of craft workers, artists, furniture makers and others who formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement that had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century. The Roycroft Campus remains active today.
A prolific writer, Hubbard's most famous essay was "Message to Garcia," which became required reading in classrooms across America after it was published in 1899.
Hubbard lived in Bloomington for a year, then moved to Hudson, where he grew up. He lived there until he became a soap salesman at age 15. He moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where he later became secretary-treasurer for the J.D. Larkin Co., a furniture maker. He and his wife, noted suffragette Alice Moore Hubbard, died when the Lusitania sank in 1915. His house, at Broadway and Walnut in Hudson, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The library display, in the Hudson History Room, will feature several Hubbard items, including a letter, Roycroft and Larkin items, and medical tools and medicines from the 1850s that Hubbard's father, Dr. Silas Hubbard, used in his practice.
The program also will include several presentations: "Elbert's Family and His Childhood" by Sue Keeran; "Elbert's Larkin Years" by Judith Lampert; and "Establishment of the Roycrofters" by Douglas Jennings.
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About Books Inc. has many Elbert Hubbard volumes. Pictured are some of the items I have on display in the front window. I am working this weekend to make sure all are inventoried so they will be available online as well as in the store. Please stop by to see what is available or go to the website: www.aboutbooksbloomington.com and do an author search (Hubbard, Elbert).
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I will be heading south for the winter again this year. I plan to be here through November. Jon will hold down the fort again while I am gone. Clare got married this October and will be leaving Bloomington when she is done with school in early December.
_______________________________________________________
Hours will be seasonally adjusted again during the winter months.
NOVEMBER: Tues. - Fri. 10:30-5:30; Sat. 10:30-4
DECEMBER: Tues. - Sat. 11:00-4:00
JANUARY-MARCH: Fri. & Sat., 11:00-4:00
_______________________________________________________
KEEP READING!
About Books Inc
221 E. Front Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
309-829-3999
www.aboutbooksbloomington.com
aboutbooksinc@hotmail.com
